Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanks & Tank Drivers...
Sirs: With the utmost repugnance I read the letter quoted by Major William G. Sears in your April 2 issue. . . . The comparison made by the Major between the situation under which the Chrysler tank drivers threatened to strike and the conditions under which tanks are driven by men in battle is not only malicious, but shows a disregard of the very rights and principles we are fighting for. To insinuate that workers should tolerate any condition where they work because our men are going through worse is nothing short of mean, and presupposes that total war is the normal state...
...outdone, the Army announced that it had abandoned a $200 million ammunition plant program. It also drastically cut production of tanks. Plans for the construction of twelve tank plants, four of them in the Detroit area, were summarily junked...
...Merkers, an undistinguished vil lage about 15 miles southwest of Eisenach in mid-Germany, slogged the weary in fantrymen of Major General Herbert L. Earnest's 90th Division. Their job last week was the usual one of follow-through after Lieut. General George S. Patton's advanced tank forces: unsnarling knots of resistance, sorting out prisoners and slave laborers. Of the latter there were many for Merkers' big salt mines...
...Current words include snags (tonsils), tank (stomach), hilk (an interjection indicating embarrassment), storky (tall, scrawny) and bughouse (the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research...